Uppity-Negro's Slow Return
Hello, all! Yes, a brand new professional installation of Movable Type was necessary; an attempted upgrade did not go well. I'm in the middle of importing all of Aaron's messages from the beginning of the blog (June 2002) on. I'd import them all at once, but I had some trouble with that. Pretty much the Movable Type system is able to handle one month at a time -- which is pretty much about all I can handle, as well!
Turns out the real problem wasn't so much my inexperience with Movable Type as it was this domain's host's experience with stating that I had (and was certainly paying for!) a certain amount of site storage space but actually only allotting not much more than a third of that. It caused all sorts of problems in trying to "rebuild" the site after the upgrade and miscellaneous code changes. Once I found out it might be a space problem and I wrote to the host, pretty much their response was, "Our bad! OK, you have it all now. Bye!" This, after spending minutes/hours/days wondering if I hadn't somehow completely destroyed the site forever?!? Yeah, thanks a lot!
The old pages are still on the site, under their original addresses, and are also in this new version of the site under the new archive date-descriptive directories.
In time, all the messages will be back. For now, though, kinda consider the site read-only (unless you have a TypeKey account). And stuck in a time warp. Thanks, everybody.